The New York gubernatorial candidate attacks gays, pornographers, Muslims, reporters, the attorney general ...

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October 16, 2010 7:01PM (UTC)

Sometimes, New York likes an angry candidate. Rudy Giuliani was, in the words of former Mayor Ed Koch, a nasty man. Former Governor Eliot Spitzer infamously referred to himself as a steamroller. But Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino is, perhaps, taking it a bit far. He wants welfare recipients to work in prison camps. He's virulently opposed to the so-called "Ground Zero mosque." Last month he nearly punched a New York Post reporter, then promised to "take [him] out." And this week, he added gays to the list of people that apparently get his dander up.

We must stop pandering to the pornographers and the perverts, who seek to target our children and destroy their lives. I didn't march in the gay parade parade this year -- the gay pride parade this year. My opponent did. And that's not the example that we should be showing our children, certainly not in our schools. And don't misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way; that would be a dastardly lie. My approach is live and let live. I just think my children, and your children, will be much better off, and much more successful getting married and raising a family. And I don't want them to be brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid or successful option. It isn't.